Zika epidemic and microcephaly in Brazil: Challenges for access to health care and promotion in three epidemic areas.

ABSTRACT: Since 2015 Brazil has experienced the social repercussions of the Zika virus epidemic, thus raising a debate about: difficulties of diagnosis; healthcare access for children with Zika Congenital Syndrome (ZCS); the search for benefits by affected families; social and gender inequalities; and a discussion on reproductive rights, among others. The objective of this article is to analyse access to specialized health services for the care of children born with ZCS in three North-eastern states of Brazil. This is an exploratory cross-sectional study which analyses recorded cases of microcephaly at the municipal level between 2015 and 2017. Most of the cases of ZCS were concentrated on the Northeast coast. Rio Grande do Norte and Paraiba had the highest incidence of microcephaly in the study per

SUBMITTER: Peiter PC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7340301 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature